So, I had bookclub on Monday this week. Didn’t prepare ahead and have Meatless Monday on Sunday. Didn’t cook meatless for my family before I left. Didn’t do much of anything, really. Except have a rotten, horrible day. I can’t remember everything that happened, but Monday was bad, bad, bad. I was late to bookclub as usual, [...]  Grandpa Hank is my father in-law and this is his old-time salad dressing for fresh-from-the-garden lettuce — which I just harvested yesterday. I suppose I could write this as a Meatless Monday recipe, but I didn’t because it really isn’t enough for a meal. But it IS the only way my kids would ever eat salad. [...]  Steamy Kitchen’s Shrimp Fried Rice It’s another recipe from The Steamy Kitchen’s cookbook. But in the text, she credits Elise from SimplyRecipes.com for the recipe. It’s all so confusing! Either way, it was easy and delicious. I got a new rice cooker for Mother’s Day. An expensive Neuro Fuzzy to replace my very old $25 one. The old one [...]  Morel Mushroom and Asparagus Risotto If you haven’t read the Morel post from yesterday, please do. It gives background information necessary for truly understanding the nature of this very special Meatless Monday meal. No, I’m not talking about the asparagus, that I’m ready to plow under. I’m talking, of course, about the two-year wait for morels fresh from our [...] 
I started this post as the Meatless Monday Eighteen post, but by the end of my breathless tirade, I realized I had about 3 pages written with nary a word about Meatless Monday, So, I turned it into its own entry. I will post the Meatless Monday recipe tomorrow. I’m not going to change [...]  Perfect fast lunch for a Meatless Monday Tastes better than fresh hollandaise, I swear. Cook a few spears of fresh asparagus in water like I show you in my first asparagus post. Gently fry (not like me with my huge freaking bubbles in the whites) one or two fresh eggs (rub the feathers off first) Put them together, break the yolks, [...]  Food pleasures, people. This is not an X-Rated website. I recently had my writer-critic brother and his family over for dinner. My parents were in town, too, so there was a whole gaggle of us. Morgan asked me to make a meal that I had thrown together last summer when some friends came over at the last [...]  Shrimp Pad Thai I’m over-the-moon about this recipe. [Now, if by chance, there were anyone under the age of 40 reading this post, I will have lost them with that first sentence. What kind of loser says "over the moon?"] But I am. Over the moon. I am giving all the credit to the recipe on Rouxbe.com. I know I [...]  Namaste. Indian again? That’s what he said. He being Charlie, who contends that he doesn’t know where I got the idea he loves Indian food. Truth is, I think if I keep telling him that he loves it, he’ll actually start believing me. Which would be convenient, since the rest of us are deeply, madly in love with it. Here’s [...] 
The Honeymoon. Yes, we are one week into the Honeymoon Stage of our asparagus harvest. That is the time where it is still a joy and a wonder to walk into the garden and find 20-30 spears that grew six inches overnight. I snap them off at the base, bring them in the house, briefly cook them [...] |
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